A-Infos (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Sweating (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It's becoming difficult to ignore recurring heatwaves, year after year. 
Remember that deadly heatwave in France in 2003, with 15,000 deaths, 
then 5,000 for 2022 according to sources such as INSERM. Then this year, 
2025, while summer is still ongoing, workplace deaths are already being 
reported at the beginning of July. Heatwaves occur in Europe and other 
parts of the world, suggesting that the number of deaths is obviously 
higher worldwide. It's this recurrence over a 25-year period that 
concerns me. Endangering Others Since the publication of the Meadows 
Report in 1972, governments were clearly aware of what was coming. Many 
simply ignored it.

The precautionary principle should have guided environmental policies. 
As a reminder, destabilizing the levels of gases present in the air is 
not trivial. As a reminder, it takes two oxygen atoms for one carbon 
atom to produce carbon dioxide. Even if we don't believe in global 
warming, it's caused by the increased presence of carbon dioxide in the 
atmosphere, that is, in the air. What will we do when there is no more 
oxygen available in the air? Asphyxiation is everyone's destiny. It's 
simple and logical.

Certainly, there have been international conferences trying to make 
people believe that the world's governments understood the problem and 
that they would take measures, often scaled back after the conferences. 
When it's not climate-sceptic governments who slam the door, fail to 
implement the resolutions they signed, and sometimes even turn on the 
oil tap.

They are all guilty of negligence, all of them, at all times, and across 
all political leanings.

It's not with announcements that go unanswered, with the truth right in 
front of the victims of heatwaves, that anything will change. Quite the 
contrary, some MPs want to put a stop to renewable energy.

When you know about a phenomenon, an action, and participate in it with 
full knowledge of its deadly effects, that's called endangering others.

The criminals are money and capitalism, governments!

Almost everything has been said above. The economic growth freaks, the 
personal enrichment freaks, the capitalism that supports consumerism at 
all costs, the super-rich. Governments, all governments, whether 
capitalist or state capitalist. All this to our detriment, at the cost 
of our lives.

This need to keep capitalism going as long as it can work, as long as 
the planet endures it, as long as people sweat and die in silence. It's 
criminal.

Moreover, who benefits from capitalism? A handful of people compared to 
the world's population.

Another possibility

A change in society is necessary if we want to survive, we and future 
generations. Throwing out capitalism and governments is imperative. 
Without allowing a return to capitalism or governments, reform is not 
possible, because, by its very nature, capitalism is part of the 
problem, and governments, even ecological ones, are untrustworthy and 
would ultimately reintroduce capitalism. Moreover, capitalism and 
governments are also responsible for many other forms of deadly effects.

An end to capitalism doesn't mean a return to the Stone Age; it's 
something that governments and capitalism have successfully implanted in 
the minds of some.

It will be a matter of managing what can be produced without impacting 
the environment. And conducting research to replace what is necessary 
with production that has no impact at all.

Producing solid, repairable objects that could last for decades.

Detoxing from consumer society and its false promises of happiness.

It's obvious that we must provide everyone with a comfortable standard 
of living, housing, and affordable food.

Limiting travel by plane and car.

A society that manages itself, free from malicious and incompetent 
subjugation. If we don't establish such a society, we will suffer again 
and again. Not to mention the nonsense that capitalism and governments 
are still capable of inventing so that we all disappear from the face of 
the Earth.

Self-management is something to be practiced, to be experienced, and 
through research, practice, improvement, reflection, and 
experimentation. Progress is our destiny.

Certainly, we see it today: governments are authoritarian and do not 
hesitate to repress very harshly anyone who wants a libertarian, 
anti-capitalist, self-managed society. It is not possible to compromise 
with any government, to demand reforms that will never come or that will 
be abolished by other governments, as we are seeing around the world 
today. Our inaction condemns us; our survival is at stake. This deserves 
more than just reflection. There is no way around it; we will have to 
change our society and how it operates.

Frédéric CLERE
Commune de Paris Group

https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=8464
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